traverse city – Thistle Thoughts

Poets’ Night Out 2025

My poem “Petoskey”

“A spark beat the heart alive
and became the true origin of fire…”

I exist in fragments. At least that’s what my mind tries to do most of the time.

“I’ve been working on poetry every chance I get…”

“Downtown Days”

I’m still a busy little bee

“Great. It’s infected.”

I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, life is busy when you actually have one.

A whole new world opened up as soon as I looked through the lenses.

…when five people in a row said hi to me while I was walking the trail, I burst into tears saying “Everyone is so nice here!”…